Journal studies: references to remember

After submitting my research proposal I realised that there were several journals I had referenced but never found time to include them in my blog. These papers cover a variety of topics, they proved valuable enough for me to reference so keeping a note of them is important.
Xinyu Yu wrote a paper on Exploring visual perception and children's interpretations of picture books. Although this study was based on children I found it useful in understanding how we all perceive things. This visual perception affects interpretation which is of interest to me. This is something I wish to explore in some manner through this project.

Lawrence R. Sipe wrote a paper How Picture Books Work: A Semiotically Framed Theory of Text-Picture Relationships. This paper looks at the interplay between word and image and offers frameworks constructed for critique. This could become very important to me as this is one of my major issues at present. Having a useable framework that allows me to carry out my case studies is something I must tackle soon. This is likely to occur next week after concept development and pre-production documents are submitted. This is why it is valuable to note such papers.

Siddharth Kara wrote a paper titled Perspectives on Human Trafficking and Modern Forms of Slavery. He has been researching into the topic 15 years ago, this made me aware of the limited awareness of the issue at the beginning of his research. This has evolved and developed with many academics now generating papers, discussions and debates on the topic. The changing attitude of recent times has been highlighted with the political processes passing new legislation on the topic just this year. Reading such papers confirms to me the importance of this project and how it may contribute towards the work many others are already doing.

Complexity in Picture Books is a joint paper written by Sierschynski, Louie and Pughe. This paper delves into levels of meaning, language and structures. These are all fundamental to the configuration of a picture book. Understanding more on the topics will help build in meaning to my own work. Having various layers is also appealing as I wish this to be something accessible to all ages. they analyse how spaces between text and visual create tension, places to explore and offer complex interpretations indicated by the unease of the reader.

No Red Buses Please is a paper written by Martin Salisbury and focuses on the impact of globalised publishing. Having things to localised seems to be an issue with publishers who have concerns about marketability in other countries. This is due to many publishers being reliant on the sales of copyright to other publishers globally. However Martin argues that book that are set more locally in landscape or detail are actually more interesting and defining. This is an interesting aspect to be aware of although my current aim is just to produce work I like and enjoy making, whether this suits publishers may be another story.

Breaking the Age Barrier was written by Judith Rosen in 1997. This paper was one of the first to discuss the growing genre of crossover picture books. Traditional thought of as children's books picture books still struggle slightly in their recognition as something also suitable for adults, certainly here in the UK anyway. However this does seem to be changing, I myself am an adult who enjoys picture books, hence the reason for me wishing to create them. The crossover genre allows me to deal with more serious topics which are of interest to me. Whilst at the same time offering the challenge of depicting such topics that they remain accessible to everyone.